Rainbow Stream 1.1.6

Rainbowstream is a terminal-based twitter client. It provides a realtime tweetstream, an interactive mode for composing replys or retweets, searching and bookmarking. Its output is themeable and highly colorized and even provides ASCII image previews.

BitlBee 3.2.2

BitlBee allows users to talk to people on the major instant messaging and microblogging networks (including MSN, Google Talk, AIM, and Twitter) from within any IRC client by emulating an IRC server. Virtual channels are created with all of the user's contacts in them, who can be talked to in the channel or in a query. Also, one can participate in group chats and chat rooms like they were normal IRC channels.